University of Sydney, Web Engineering Group Visit Website: http://www.weg.ee.usyd.edu.au

The Web Engineering Group at the University of Sydney teaches undergraduate courses in e-commerce and software engineering. The group has developed several packages for OpenACS and participates in the internationalization effort, namely to Spanish, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. It is the common platform for research projects in e-learning, knowledge management and language technologies. DotLRN is also used as knowledge management and collaboration tool by the members of the group and collaborators.

Several research projects at WEG use OpenACS / dotLRN as core platform, the overall aim being to build intelligent information systems that adapt to user needs and use text mining as a source of “intelligence”. The projects include project management software that optimises resource allocation, Learning managements systems with automatically generated metadata and a document catalog where documents are assigned to each category automatically. Most WEG development is performed under Linux, using PostgreSQL, although OS X and Oracle development are also used.